re: #194 A Mom Anon

So besides investing in more police/intel/detective type work (relying more on people than technology) what is the alternative to all this electronic spying on everyone and hoping to sort it all out? Or are we (and by extension our government) kidding ourselves by thinking all this data mining is going to protect us? I’m honestly not sure what to think. I’ve read a bunch of stuff about this today and I’m more confused than when I started.

It’s probably pretty useless compared to human intelligence.

It just seems to me that these mountains of data aren’t specifically helpful to stop something like 9/11/01 from happening again.

It’s probably 98% being used for drug stuff, not terrorism stuff.